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For Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Lungcast speaks with Christy Fischer, a patient who's spent the last 17 years fighting late-stage cancer.

Results called attention to a greater risk of hospitalization among patients with CKD who exhibited depressive symptoms, regardless of treatment with dialysis.

Presented at AAO 2023, new data show dual Ang-2/VEGF-A inhibition with faricimab improved pigment epithelial detachment outcomes versus aflibercept.

Data presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023 highlighted the patient-reported difficulty of implementing physician-recommended lifestyle changes but noted significant impacts on physical health, mental health, and overall quality of life when done successfully.

In a pooled subcohort analysis of YOSEMITE and RHINE, faricimab showed comparable vision outcomes with fewer injections than aflibercept in DME eyes with baseline BCVA of ≤ 20/50.

This new data indicates both the high mental health burden on this patient population as well as the usefulness of integrated behavioral health care teams in clinics with a pediatric specialty.

Presented at AAO 2023, a retrospective study found no statistically significant difference in retinopathy worsening between GLP-1 RAs and SGLT2 inhibitors.

At ASN Kidney Week 2023, we collected perspectives from 10 key opinion leaders in nephrology on what they see as the most significant news in their specialty from the past year.

Results presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023 highlighted the importance of eGFR and albuminuria measurements for identifying risk of major adverse kidney disease events.

Consumers should avoid Dr. Ergin’s SugarMD Advanced Glucose Support due to an increased risk of adverse events including hypoglycemia.

Six-month RIPPLE-1 results show treatment with the IBE-814 intravitreal implant led to CST reduction and BCVA improvement in patients with DME or RVO.

In the PULSAR study, White and Asian participants had similar best corrected visual acuity improvements in the 2 mg aflibercept group.

Presented at AAO 2023, first-time results suggest home OCT may have a significant effect on treatment burden in the management of nAMD.

First-year results from ALTITUDE suggest RGX-314 was well-tolerated and provided meaningful improvements in disease severity at dose levels 1 and 2.

The study, presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023, sought to assess the impact of sociodemographic stress on outcomes in home dialysis among patients with ESRD.

Patrick Rossignol, MD, PhD, provides additional perspective on the results of the ALCHEMIST trial from Kidney Week 2023.

Food insecurity was associated with more missed appointments and fluid or electrolyte-related hospitalizations among patients on hemodialysis, especially those under 55 years of age.

Joanthan Barratt, MD, discusses the results of a RaDaR analysis aimed at examining trends in time-averaged proteinuria and eGFR slope in patients with IgA nephropathy.

Findings presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023 highlighted an association between distance to the transplant center and increased clinic cancellations.

On the floor at AAO 2023, host Veeral Sheth, MD, discusses UBX1325 for patients with diabetic macular edema, based on the 48-week results from the phase 2 BEHOLD study.

Michelle Rheault, MD, provides additional perspective on the results of the DUPLEX trial, which examined sparsentan in patients with FSGS.

Presented at AAO 2023, new 3-year data from the GALE extension study shows increasing treatment effects over time with pegcetacoplan injection for geographic atrophy.

In a presentation at AAO 2023, Tsang discussed topline data from the phase 2 trial on MCO-010 optogenetic therapy for vision loss in Stargardt Disease.

Data presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023 suggested male kidney donors recover greater kidney function than females after donation.

Data for a pair of studies presented at Kidney Week 2023 provide an overview of the effects of eGFR and how this might translate to potential long-term benefit in patients IgA nephropathy.

We sat down with Maya Clark-Cutaia, RN, MSN, PhD, assistant professor of nursing at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing to discuss disparities in the kidney transplantation process and how they should be addressed in future efforts.

Data from multiple presentations at ASN Kidney Week 2023 offer insight into the effects of atacicept in patients with IgA nephropathy as well as the design of the phase 3 trial, which is currently enrolling.

Results presented in an abstract at ASN Kidney Week 2023 showed White patients had the greatest access to waitlisting and transplantation.